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Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Israel Islamic movement, announced, Sunday evening, that he is starting a hunger strike. Arab media say Salah is protesting his imprisonment in the isolation wing of the Rimon Prison in southern Israel... Prisons Service sources confirmed the announcement but told Walla! that Salah had not returned meals as of Sunday evening.

Results of research showing the 2015 index for relations between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, published partially for the first time on Tuesday, show just how far the Arab population supports and identifies with openly pro-terror organizations. The research, conducted by Professor Sami Samucha, reveals that no less than 57% of Arab citizens of Israel say they feel the radical Islamic Movement in Israel faithfully represents them. Significantly, the movement was outlawed on Tuesday for its long history of inciting terrorism, organizing and funding violent riots on the Temple Mount, and its close connections with Hamas. ...

Protests in support of the current Palestinian Arab “intifada” and against Israel continue in Jordan. On Friday, immediately after weekly prayers in the mosques, a massive rally was held in the city of Zarqa, east of Amman. The protesters, who responded to calls from the Islamic Movement, waved Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flags and expressed support for the “Palestinian struggle”. Ayman Abu al-Rub, a leader of the Islamic Movement in Jordan, congratulated the young people involved in the intifada, and said that the intifada would continue despite the machinations and efforts to stop it, and stressed that the Jordanian people...

CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian government on Wednesday re-listed Ansar al-Islam, Lashkar-e Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad, from Pakistan, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan as terrorist organisations, Efe news agency reported. These organisations, which have been listed since 2003, would continue to be listed for another three years, according to a statement from the Australian Attorney-General's Department. Under this measure, it remains a criminal offence to direct the activities of, be a member of, recruit for, train for or receive training from these groups. It would also be a criminal offence to get funds to, from, or for, provide support to,...

The Israeli government has begun discussions on declaring the Islamic Movement in Israel an illegal organization. […] Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) commented on the proposed banning of the movement on Sunday. […] “How absurd. In all countries in the region they are illegal, and only in Israel they incite and strive freely against the existence of the state. We need to put an end to this,” argued Katz. …

Leaders of the extremist Islamic Movement in Israel have claimed that Muslim MKs and other communal leaders took part in Saturday’s “Day of Rage” against the Prawer plan, which resettles Bedouin squatters to legal territories in the Negev. In an official statement released earlier this week, the movement blessed the violent protesters, calling them “heroes” for their “honorable battle stance” against the “fascist” Israeli government. The movement claims that Israel is “racist” for trying to “expel the Arabs from the Negev and confiscate the their land.” …

The Muslim Public Affairs Council’s choice of location for its 12th Annual Convention on December 15 is telling: The All Saints Episcopal Church of Pasadena, California. The group, founded by Muslim Brotherhood followers, says this is the “next step in its mission by crossing the interfaith line.” Yet again, the Islamists are taking advantage of naïve Christians with a desire to show off their tolerance. … Hassan Hathout says they sought to begin the “Islamic Movement” in the U.S., a term the Brotherhood uses to describe its ideology. In 1997, he predicted its success because “America needs Islam. If you...

Israel “will pay a heavy price" if it does not break the new axis between the Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Movement, whose northern branch is headed by Sheilkh Raad Salah, Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer warned Monday morning. National Union Knesset Member Dr. Michael Ben-Ari said he is sponsoring a bill that would declare the Islamic Movement to be a terrorist organization.

Having troops in Iraq or being strong supporters of Israel are the only reasons Islamic terrorists attack people, right? So, how exactly do Democrats and other assorted morons explain this? Wang Lequan, the top Communist Party official in the far western region of Xinjiang, said materials seized in a Jan. 27 raid in the regional capital, Urumqi, suggested the plotters' planned "specifically to sabotage the staging of the Beijing Olympics." …Wang said the group had been trained by and was following the orders of a Uighur separatist group based in Pakistan and Afghanistan called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or...

"Palestinian" Arab Muslim Racism, against blacks too! 'Black spinster' label pinned on Condi Rice Palestinian media use racist terms including 'colored dark skin lady' http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51298 PALESTINIAN MEDIA USE RACIST TERMS FOR CONDI RICE: Newspapers ... http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur27814.cfmEurweb.com, CA - Aug 2, 2006* The Palestinians’overall hatred ... Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been using racist terms in ... A cartoon that ran last week in the PA controlled Al Quds ... Black Activists Condemn Racist Rice Cartoons in Palestinian Press ... http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=70272U.S. Newswire (press release), DC - Aug 4, 2006... her as "Brown Sugar," Ted Rall's cartoon suggesting she ... leftist knuckleheads...

Jan. 3, 2006 14:28 | Updated Jan. 3, 2006 14:42 Israel denies Temple Mount excavation By JPOST.COM STAFFAerial view of Temple Mount Photo: Areil Jerozolimski [file] The Israel Antiquities Authority denied on Tuesday accusations that archeological excavations were currently underway below the Temple Mount and that a synagogue had opened at the site. Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem District Archaeologist Yuval Baruch said that all of the gates to the Temple Mount compound had been blocked by massive construction in historical times. "The only gates open today are the official ones - they are open to Muslim worshippers and visitors -...

ALBANY, N.Y. - Two Muslim men caught up in an anti-terrorism sting operation pleaded innocent Friday as details emerged about 10 new charges against them. Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain were accused Thursday of attempting to provide support to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based group listed by the federal government as a terrorist organization. Aref, who leads a mosque, also was charged with lying to federal officials. The pair were initially charged in August 2004 with conspiring to launder money and promoting terrorism. They now face a total of 30 charges. Entered as new evidence against Aref were entries in his personal...

ABC correspondent Emma Griffiths reports. ANNIE WHITE: Authorities in Uzbekistan have sealed off part of the eastern city of Andijon, where troops fired on a crowd of demonstrators killing as many as 500 people. Thousands of Uzbeks are now trying to leave the country, massing on the neighbouring Kyrgyzstan border. The Uzbekistan Government claims to have the situation under control, but some observers are predicting more widespread instability in the former Soviet state. There are also calls for the United States to rein in its central Asian ally. ABC correspondent Emma Griffiths reports. EMMA GRIFFITHS: The border town of Korasuv...

Feb. 6, 2003 Hamas leader: Islamic group is ready to take over from Arafat By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hamas is prepared to assume leadership of the Palestinian people, a senior Hamas official said Thursday, a rare expression of the goal of the violent Islamic movement, while five Palestinians, another Arab and two soldiers were killed in clashes. Mahmoud Zahar, a leader of the Hamas political wing, told The Associated Press that his group is "absolutely" prepared to lead the Palestinian people now. He said Hamas has the infrastructure to take over leadership "politically, financially (and) socially." Hamas has been responsible...

Feb. 2, 2003 Israeli Arabs protest US stance on Iraq; call for attacks on US embassies By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF Leaders of the Israeli Arab Islamic Movement protested Saturday against the possible US – led war against Iraq, calling on Arabs and Muslims to attack American embassies in the Middle East. Leaders told the gathering that they should go into the streets and attack US embassies, reports Channel 1. "Push the US out of Arab and Muslim lands. Attack their embassies. Bush is the only terrorist. America is the only terrorist", said a leader at the rally.

UPDATE 3 - U.S. applies new rules to 22 more 'terrorist' groups   (Adds comments by Rep. Tom Lantos, paragraphs 8-9) By Jonathan Wright WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The United States on Friday added 22 groups including Hamas and Hizbollah to the list of "terrorist" groups under tight financial controls introduced after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The main pro-Israeli lobbying organization in the United States applauded the decision, saying it showed the Bush administration intended to combat all forms of terrorism. Six groups -- al Qaeda and five allegedly associated groups -- came under the new rules in September. Al Qaeda, led by Saudi-born ...

March 17, 2002 Al Qaeda's Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing By DAVID ROHDE and C. J. CHIVERS n Aug. 17, 1995, Amir Maawia Siddiqi, the son of a bookshop owner in a small village in Pakistan, set down his oath of allegiance to the jihad. "I, Amir Maawia Siddiqi, son of Abdul Rahman Siddiqi, state in the presence of God that I will slaughter infidels my entire life," he wrote. "And with the will of God I will do these killings in the supervision and guidance with Harkat ul-Ansar." He accepted a code name, Abu Rashid, signed his name...